Democrat National Convention - Day 3 Live Thread (Return of the Clenis)

[Wretched Excess]

Wednesday, August 27 2008: Securing America's Future
Hour # 1   3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (LOCAL)

Call to Order
The Honorable Leticia Van de Putte
State Senator from Texas
Co-Chair, Democratic National Convention

Invocation
Archbishop Demetrios
Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in America

Presentation of Colors
Colorado Chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Franz Wedeman, Thomas Chesner, David Shuker, John Harrington

Pledge of Allegiance
Paul Bucha
Ridgefield, Connecticut recipient of the Medal of Honor for distinguished service as a commanding officer in Vietnam

National Anthem
Robert Moore
Distinguished singer from South Dakota and elected council member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe

Presidential Nomination Process
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the US House of Representatives
Permanent Chair, Democratic National Convention

Nominating speech on behalf of Senator Hillary Clinton

Seconding speeches on behalf of Senator Hillary Clinton (2)

Nominating speech on behalf of Senator Barack Obama

Seconding speeches on behalf of Senator Barack Obama (3)
 
Call for Roll Call Vote
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the US House of Representatives
Permanent Chair, Democratic National Convention

Roll Call Vote
Alice Travis Germond
Secretary of the Democratic  National Committee

Remarks
The Honorable Charles Schumer
US Senator, New York
Chair, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

The Honorable Tom Udall
Member of the US House of Representatives, New Mexico

The Honorable Jean Shaheen
Former Governor of New Hampshire
Candidate for US Senate

Jeff Merkley 
Candidate for US Senate from the State of Oregon

Tom Allen
Candidate for the US Senate from the State of Maine

Hour # 4   5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (LOCAL)

Remarks
The Honorable Richard M. Daley
Mayor of Chicago, Illinois

The Honorable Robert Wexler
Member of the US House of Representatives, Florida

Video - The Course of Our Nation
Brittany Washington 
A student at Howard University in Washington, DC from Los Angeles, California

Women of the US House of Representatives
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the US House of Representatives
Permanent Chair, Democratic National Convention
The Honorable Rosa DeLauro
Member of the US House of Representatives, Connecticut
The Honorable Nita Lowey
Member of the US House of Representatives, New York
The Honorable Hilda Solis
Member of the US House of Representatives, California
The Honorable Louise Slaughter
Member of the US House of Representatives, New York
The Honorable Maxine Waters
Member of the US House of Representatives, California
The Honorable Kathy Castor
Member of the US House of Representatives, Florida
The Honorable Lois Capps
Member of the US House of Representatives, California

Remarks
The Honorable Elijah Cummings
Member of the US House of Representatives, Maryland

Mark Docherty
Veteran and a firefighter from Sterling Heights, Michigan

The Honorable James Clyburn
Member of the US House of Representatives, South Carolina

The Honorable Manuel Diaz
Mayor of Miami, Florida

The Honorable Jay Rockefeller
US Senator, West Virginia

Live Performance
Melissa Etheridge accompanied by Phillip Sayce (guitar)
Award-winning singer/songwriter

Video - First Time Delegates: Renewing America's Promise

Remarks
The Honorable Harry Reid
US Senator, Nevada
Senate Majority Leader

CSM Michele S. Jones, US Army (Ret.)
First female command sergeant major of the US Army

The Honorable Patrick Murphy
Member of the US House of Representatives, Pennsylvania
Joined by Iraq war veterans

The Honorable Madeleine Albright
Former Secretary of State

America’s  Town Hall - Securing America's Future
Moderator: The Honorable Joe Sestak
Member of the US House of Representatives, Pennsylvania
Panelists: Kathy Roth-Douquet, CSM John Estrada, Collin McMahon,
Representative Ellen Tauscher/California

Remarks
The Honorable Evan Bayh
US Senator, Indiana

Xiomara Rodriguez
Nevada delegate and retired member of the US Coast Guard

The Honorable Jack Reed
US Senator, Rhode Island

The Honorable Tom Daschle
Former US Senator and Senate Minority Leader, South Dakota

Hour # 5   7:00 PM - 8:00 PM (LOCAL)

Remarks
The Honorable Bill Clinton
Former President of the United States

Beth Robinson
Stay-at-home mom from Hampton Roads, Virginia

The Honorable John Kerry
US Senator, Massachusetts

Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy, US Army (Ret.)
First woman to achieve the rank of three star general in the US Army

The Honorable Bill Richardson
Governor of New Mexico

Video – Changing The Course of Our Nation
John Melvin
Iraq war veteran from DeWitt, Iowa

Veterans Video and Remarks
The Honorable Chet Edwards
Member of the US House of Representatives, Texas

Hour # 6   8:00 PM – 9:00 PM (LOCAL)

Remarks
Tammy Duckworth
Director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs
Helicopter pilot and wounded Iraq war veteran

Vice Presidential Nomination
Remarks and nominating speech
Seconding speech

Vice Presidential Nominee
The Honorable Senator Joe Biden
US Senator, Delaware

Benediction
Sister Catherine Pinkerton
Congregation of St. Joseph’s in Cleveland, Ohio

Recess
The Honorable Leticia Van de Putte
State Senator from Texas
Co-Chair, Democratic National Convention

[Wretched Excess]

odd the The BarackStar!'s nominating convention has been all about the clintons so far . . . .

[USA4ME]

Question for whoever wishes to comment:

I keep reading that several of the Hillary delegate contingency isn't going to go to the Obama speech at Mile High Stadium (or whatever it is now).  Even Billy boy is staying away.  They claim is the reason Obamassiah did this was because Kennedy did the same thing at the Coliseum in LA back in 1960, so they want that theme of him being the next JFK.  But I have to wonder if part of the reason they wanted to move the venue was because several of the delegates were packing up and going home after tonight's rollcall and the lower attendance would be noticable.

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[Wretched Excess]

Question for whoever wishes to comment:

I keep reading that several of the Hillary delegate contingency isn't going to go to the Obama speech at Mile High Stadium (or whatever it is now).  Even Billy boy is staying away.  They claim is the reason Obamassiah did this was because Kennedy did the same thing at the Coliseum in LA back in 1960, so they want that theme of him being the next JFK.  But I have to wonder if part of the reason they wanted to move the venue was because several of the delegates were packing up and going home after tonight's rollcall and the lower attendance would be noticable.

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interesting question.  but I have to assume that if you can fill up mile high stadium, you can fill up the pepsi center. 

I have wondered how they would change venues on thursday night from activity at the convention center to mile high stadium.  the logistics would be so difficult, that I suppose they will just abandon the pepsi center for all of thursday's activities and just convene at the stadium.

and I didn't realize that JFK delivered his acceptance speech from a stadium until I read it as an aside in another story last night.  another cheap ripoff.
 

[Chris_]

Have you all heard yet that Teh Obamessiah will have Bruce Springsteen at Invesco Field to warm up the crowd for him on Thursday?

[USA4ME]

interesting question.  but I have to assume that if you can fill up mile high stadium, you can fill up the pepsi center.

That was my first though, too, but I thought the stadium thing was the theme of "The Obamassiah is open to the common man" whereas the convention is just for the delegates.  And I'm sure if they had held it in the convention center and they had word that enough Hillary delagates had left they would pull people off the streets to fill in the holes.

I'm just confident that out in the heartland of America, the Hillary supports aren't going "Well, she said to vote for Hussein, so I'll just go along."  They're still mad and will remain mad.

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[Wretched Excess]

I assume that biden will be in full blown attack mode tonight.  we should turn our gaffe detectors on;  if he strays one sentence from the speech, he's liable to blow both legs off.

and the cable news networks haven't been covering the early convention speeches thus far, only the primetime speech of the evening.  I wonder if the MSM will snub the clenis . . .

[Wretched Excess]

LOL!  I just noticed that the roll call is going on now . . . buried in the middle of the afternoon.  where
NO ONE will see it.  I wonder how they managed to tally the superdelegates in such a way that they didn't look
as brazenly undemocratic (in the sense of the form of government, not the political party) as they really are.

and california passed.  probably because it would have put hillary ahead, and THAT would have made The BarackStar!
look bad.

[Wretched Excess]

I forgot how comical roll call votes are at political conventions . . . "my state, home of the world's second largest ball of twine, and home of brittney spear's drunken manicurists, casts it's 5 votes for . . . . " 

the guy from mississippi did the math wrong, and cast 31 votes for obama and 8 votes for hillary.  mississippi has 41 votes. 

[Miss Mia]

I got home just a few minutes ago.  Hillary's up to give all the New York delegates to Obama.  And to suspend the roll call and call for nomination of Obama by acclamation.

[Wretched Excess]

I got home just a few minutes ago.  Hillary's up to give all the New York delegates to Obama.  And to suspend the roll call and call for nomination of Obama by acclamation.

yes, as a final indignity, they made her officially move that he be nominated by acclamation.  I am sure that she is going back to her hotel suite and beat huma.

[TheSarge]

So that was the deal...the Clintonoids got to get up and vent and have their say...and for being able to do that Her Thighness had to release the Delegates and nominate Brock in a show of *cough* party unity.

[Wretched Excess]

when jon corzine cast new jersey's votes, he said that obama was going to "change the country and inspire the world".

[Miss Mia]

I got home just a few minutes ago.  Hillary's up to give all the New York delegates to Obama.  And to suspend the roll call and call for nomination of Obama by acclamation.

yes, as a final indignity, they made her officially move that he be nominated by acclamation.  I am sure that she is going back to her hotel suite and beat huma.

 

[Wretched Excess]

some texas delegate is in hysterics, and says that barack obama is now the president of the united states.  I think she is missing a step.

[Wretched Excess]

why is everyone at the convention crying?   they really shouldn't put these poor people on television;  they aren't making any sense at all.

[TheSarge]

some texas delegate is in hysterics, and says that barack obama is now the president of the united states.  I think she is missing a step.

I thought it was Schmucky Schumer up there bleating that crap

[Wretched Excess]

some texas delegate is in hysterics, and says that barack obama is now the president of the united states.  I think she is missing a step.

I thought it was Schmucky Schumer up there bleating that crap

PMSNBC had a camera down on the floor, and was interviewing delegates.  well, they asked sobbing people questions, who sobbed unintelilgible answers back.  it wasn't pretty.

[Miss Mia]

some texas delegate is in hysterics, and says that barack obama is now the president of the united states.  I think she is missing a step.

I thought it was Schmucky Schumer up there bleating that crap

PMSNBC had a camera down on the floor, and was interviewing delegates.  well, they asked sobbing people questions, who sobbed unintelilgible answers back.  it wasn't pretty.

Yeah I saw that too.  You gotta remember, us wimmens are emotional and it only takes 1 starting to cry to get us all going.  LOL!

[Wretched Excess]

some texas delegate is in hysterics, and says that barack obama is now the president of the united states.  I think she is missing a step.

I thought it was Schmucky Schumer up there bleating that crap

PMSNBC had a camera down on the floor, and was interviewing delegates.  well, they asked sobbing people questions, who sobbed unintelilgible answers back.  it wasn't pretty.

Yeah I saw that too.  You gotta remember, us wimmens are emotional and it only takes 1 starting to cry to get us all going.  LOL!

I can't imagine you saying "i'm not a serviceman but i want them home .. . . and i want our teachers to be paid . . . and I want people to have doctors", no matter what sort of emotional trauma you may have just suffered.

chris matthews is comparing the obama nomination to something or other desmond tut.  he has lost it, too.

[TheSarge]

Yeah I saw that too.  You gotta remember, us wimmens are emotional and it only takes 1 starting to cry to get us all going.  LOL!

But normally it happens for a good reason or because something important has happened.

[Willow]

on a side note folks. They just showed Ray Nagin sitting in Denver talking with Wolf Blitzer. Gustav is aime right at New Orleans! FCOL!

[bijou]

why is everyone at the convention crying?   they really shouldn't put these poor people on television;  they aren't making any sense at all.

Buyers' remorse? 

[Wretched Excess]

why is everyone at the convention crying?   they really shouldn't put these poor people on television;  they aren't making any sense at all.

Buyers' remorse? 

it's insane!  those people think the election is a formality.  they are convinced that he is as good as in.

[Willow]

they are like little parrots, we are unified, we are unified, we are unified.